Wanganui Officers’ Club To Hear Address On Situation In Malaya

Wanganui Chronicle, 21 November 1950, Page 4

Wanganui Officers’ Club To Hear Address On Situation In Malaya

Colonel D. E. B. Talbot, D. 5.0., M.C., Senior Army Liaison Officer on the United Kingdom Service Staff, will be the guest speaker at the final meeting of the Wanganui Officers' Club tomorrow night. Colonel Talbot will take as his subject the present situation in Malaya, as he spent a considerable period of service in those States and his talk on a topical subject will undoubtedly be of great interest to his audience. Colonel Talbot entered the British Army from the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, in 1928 and was commissioned into the Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regiment. He served with the Ist Battalion of that regiment in India for nearly ten years, ending up as adjutant. On his return to England he commanded a company at his regimental flenot. He qualified at the Staff College, Camberley, early in 1940. was a brigade major with the B.E.F. in France and afterwarS'w’led various staff appointments in Britain, rising from brigade major to G.S.O. II and then to G.S.O. I. He took part in the Invasion of Normandy as second in command of a battalion of the Dorsetshire Regiment, and soon after took over command of a battalion of the Royal Hampshire Regiment. At the end of the war he commanded the 2nd Battalion of his own regiment in 8.A.0.R. Germ any. He relinquished his command to attend rourscs r.t the Riyal Naval Staff College at Greenwich and then the Joint Services Staff College at Latimer. In 1947 he was posted to Singapore as G.S.O. I. on the Staff of General Headquarters,. Far East Land Forces and remained there till coming ■n New Zea.lar-d in June. 1948, as the senior Army liaison officer, on the U "cd Kingdo. i Service Liaison Staff. It is of interest that, apart from Royal Marines, the 50tn Regiment, as the O 0.P..W. Ke-t RcMrumt was called, found the first British soldiers ever to lond in New Zealand. This was in 1834, when a company of the reaiment was sent from Australia to assist in the rescue of a crew of o. trading vessel then taken prisoner by the Maoris after being wrecked on the Taranaki const. Later, the regiment took port in the Maori Wars ot 185365, and it is now allied to th" Canterbury Regiment ot New Zealand.